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We will be live-tweeting the Board of Health mtg happening in abt an hour. On the agenda are the recommendations sent from the BOH to the WPD re: racism, bias & discrimination. Police Chief missed the last mtg he was invited to. Stay tuned! Agenda here: https://t.co/ds7AfRPVxH
I once wrote an op ed to the @telegramdotcom in support of safe injection sites and they refused to publish it because they disagreed with it and it was “radical”. But they’ll happily publish this racist garbage.
https://t.co/Q1KjDk8a59
Interviewed the very righteous kids who run Racism-Free WPS, an Instagram account detailing all sorts of horrors in the Worcester Public Schools. They had a lot of great things to say and they’re giving the city hell https://t.co/2EEl1SJhmD
Worcester still has not released any information on either of the two excessive force incidents in the media the past three weeks. Sign the petition calling for the City to release all police misconduct data. https://t.co/O500flqtzF
After two of his opinion columns were not allowed to be published, @bill_shaner quit GateHouse and started his own Worcester news opinion website.
https://t.co/Uw2lIKELUG
The #WorcSchool Cmte has voted for the @worcesterpublic administration to focus on the planning on the hybrid model for next fall.
As @MayorPetty said,"I wouldn't put too much time in [fulltime back in buildings]...it's not something we should be focusing on"
As @MayorPetty and the School Committee need to include the agreed upon 14 Action Steps in their upcoming Superintendent Binienda evaluations.
(In addition to that pesky Globe article of course)
today is the first day without a COVID-19 death reported in Massachusetts since March 20, when state public health officials announced the first fatality.
Here's our statement on tonight's City Council meeting, specifically agenda item 9i. We need to know the truth about our police.
https://t.co/6LmHULAPQr
.@SRose4District1 previews an order he's putting on tonight looking into getting body cameras on WPD officers to be put in place January 1st, 2021.
He'll ask that this program be a funding priority.
https://t.co/1brxwY7FxT